His life had been a chivalrous one with all the best that chivalry stands for, "loyalty, honesty, generosity, courage, courtesy, and self-devotion; to impute no unworthy motives and to bear no grudges; to bear misfortune with cheerfulness and without a murmur; strike hard for the right and to take no mean advantage; to be gentle to women and kind to all that are weak: to be rigorous with oneself and very lenient to others—these...were the traits that distinguished Stevenson."

Excerpt from the final chapter